Founded September 2023
Soli Deo Gloria Mennonite Community Choir, Winnipeg, performing faith-oriented works.
The name Soli Deo Gloria, Glory to God Alone, is a tribute to Johann Sebastian Bach, who wrote the initials of this phrase on every page of his manuscripts.
Soli Deo Gloria Mennonite Community Choir, an amateur, concert-sized choir, strives for excellence and a performance of sacred music rooted in the classic choral tradition of the Mennonite faith, for the enrichment of Manitoba audiences or choristers. Membership in the choir is open to all persons of any denomination who desire to communicate their faith through song.
2023
Founded in Winnipeg
$20
Every concert seat
Open
To singers of any denomination
Conductor and artistic director
Born in Petrozavodsk, he trained at the St. Petersburg Conservatory and came to Winnipeg in 2000. He has led the Winnipeg Philharmonic Choir and The Winnipeg Singers, and prepared choirs for the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra.
Winnipeg Free Press / June 24, 2020 / republished with permission
Associate conductor
Soprano, conductor, and vocal pedagogue with more than three decades of performing, teaching, and choral leadership. She directs the Choral Department at Grant Park High School.
Accompanist
Pianist for professional and amateur ensembles, including the Winnipeg Singers and Winnipeg Philharmonic Choirs. A freelance collaborator, private piano instructor, and longtime music faculty member at Canadian Mennonite University.
She wrote about a choir of more than fifty community singers, carefully prepared and unified in sound, and a hall that filled for music that stayed affordable.
Ellen Wieser
Soprano soloist, The Creation
She described committed singers, a balanced and vibrant sound, and a choir that arrived prepared and responded closely to the conductor.
Dr. Laura Loewen
Collaborative pianist, University of Manitoba
She called the choir a Manitoba gem, praising the sound under Yuri Klaz, the soloists, and the orchestra hired for large works.
Mary Lawton
Violinist and concertmaster, Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra